The Colored American

The COLORED American A NATIONAL NEGRO NEWSPAPER INSPECTION SHOWS EIGHTH REGIMENT, I. N. G., EXCELS. Colonel Tripp is Surprised at Efficiency of the Black Soldiers—Other Guardsmen to be Drilled by Regular Army Men. The Seventh and Eighth regiments of the Illinois National Guard, as part of the Fourth brigade, are being put through their annual inspection in arms, accoutrements, attendance, dress and rifle practice by a United States army officer. The inspector of the National Guard is Captain Matthew E. Saville, Twenty-seventh Infantry, U. S. A., of the staff of Brigadier General James B. Smith, commander of the Fourth brigade of the Illinois National Guard. He is being assisted in his work by Lieutenant Colonel S. O. Tripp, chief inspector of rifle practice of the Fourth brigade, and Lieutenant Harry E. Fox, aid-decamp on the staff of General Smith, both of whom have come from Peoria as representatives of General Smith. The inspection so far has been confined to the six resident companies of the Eighth regiment, under the command of Colonel John R. Marshall. This is the regiment of Negroes of Illinois. Companies A, B and C were reviewed Monday night and Tuesday night Companies D, E and F were marshaled for inspection in the armory at Thirty-seventh street and Michigan Avenue. Attired in their gaudy uniforms, consisting of dress coats, trousers and cap, with crossed rifles and white gloves, they presented a soldierly appearance. The attendance was more than 90 per cent. of the total membership, and their arms and accouterments were in a splendid condition. According to one of the visiting inspectors the showing of the negro militiamen was in many respects superior to that made by regiments composed exclusively of whites. "I notice in them," said Colonel Trip, "a greater degree of enthusiasm in their drill, which reflects itself particularly in their general neatness of appearance and their attendance. They take more pride in their organization. In personal appearance, in- WASHINGTON, D.C.,APRIL 2, 1904. Women Of The Hour MRS. JOSEPHI Whose Influence is Doing Much for MRS. JOSEPHINE B. BRUCE, he is Doing Much for the Uplift of Afro-Ame S. Whose Influence is Doing Much for the Uplift of Afro-American Women. cluding both neatness of dress and correct military bearing, they are superior to their white fellow members of the National Guard. In rifle practice only were they lacking last year, and I expect to find them this year much improved in that line. "A word of praise for their colonel would not be amiss. Colonel Marshall is an indefatigable worker and to him is due most of the credit for their superior showing. He is somewhat hampered by the fact that his present quarters are very inadequate. I trust that recognition of this need will be taken as early as possible and that the Eighth regiment will soon be housed in quarters benefiting its size and efficiency." BAND ONLY ONE TO OBEY ORDERS. The regimental band, consisting of --- --- NE B. BRUCE, the Uplift of Afro-American Women. thirty-four pieces and twenty members of the fife and drum corps, was inspected Monday night. The Eighth regiment is at present the only one in Chicago having a regimental band, its musicians being the only ones who responded to the order to march in the parade last fall during the celebration of the Chicago centennial.—Chicago Chronicle. The Second Baptist Lyceum is never without an attraction at its meetings at 3:30 p. m. each Sunday. Last Sunday Mr. Ernest R. Gaither, of New Jersey, spoke to a representative audience, taking for his subject: "Opportunity." Lieut. R. E. S. Toomey, the president, makes a capital presiding officer. --- THE JUDGE TELLS OF THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN. The Men Are "Inconsequents" and Have More Hobbies and More Organizations Than They can Control An Amateur Press Association-A Word About Editor Fortune and Other Journalists. I have been pinning my faith to the National Association of Colored Women. In one way and another I verily believe they are doing something more than talk. I have also a sneaking, irreverent notion that not being men is somewhat in their favor. They haven't as many "leadin'est" women as the men have "greatest-leaders-of-their-race" to contend with. Mrs. Yates, the president of the association, appears to be no more essential to the general welfare and growth of the organization than Mrs. Booker T. Washington; Mrs. Josephine Bruce cuts no larger figure, apparently, than does Mrs. Mary Church-Terrell; Mrs. Lucy Thurman is no bigger than the National Organizer, Mrs. L. A. Davis. In fact these women seem to have devised a very happy system of adjustment, in the matter of "who-shall-be-the-biggest-gun" in their national organization, by not having a "big gun." By this statement of the fact, as I see it, I do not mean that the ablest and brainiest women in the association have not their ambitions to rule it and to control its destinies. But there is an ever-present recognition of the fitness of things that comes as a refreshing relief from the contemplation of the small bore intrigue and the reprehensible aspiration and attitude of the inconsequents in the national organization of our men. The women have but one national organization! God alone knows how many the men have. I use the term "inconsequents" with a heavy heart and a soul burdened with the weight of a deep and abiding sorrow. Of what quality of flesh am I made that I can set myself up in the highway of public opinion as a competent judge of men and men's affairs? And yet what is a fellow to do when he comes face to face with a Continued on page 5. City Paragraphs. --- 10 Miss May Belcher who has been in the city visiting her aunt, has returned to her home in Augusta, Ga. Messrs. Mann and Graves of Patterson, N. J., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Joy while in this city. Miss Channie Patterson and her sister Miss Emma are both sick with the grippe. Mr. John Downing of Pittsburg, was in the city last week the guest of Dr. Albert Ridgely. Mr. John Nalle, Supervising Principal of the 11th Division, has been sick with the grippe. Miss Lulu Love, who has been sick the past few weeks, is improving and will be able to return to her school soon. Mr. Robert W. Taylor, financial agent for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution, has spent a few hours in the city this week. Miss Marjorie West of Germantown, is in the city with her aunt Mrs. Carter on 10th St., and will be here till after the marriage of her cousin Miss Emma Carater on the 16th inst. Mrs. John Simmons of Orange, N. J. was in the city ast week the guest of her sister Mrs. Hughes of 19th street. She left for Richmond and other points in Virginia on Friday. Miss L. M. Henry, a graduate of Freedmen's Hospital and Training School for Nurses is pleasantily located at Talklai, Ariz. She is a credit and an honor to her profession. Lawyer J. Douglas Wetmore of Jacksonville, Florida, is in the city, where he came to attend the Washington banquet. Mr. Wtmore is one of the coming young men of the race. A leap year proposal entertainment was given at the residence of Mrs. Prime Smith, 231 O St., N. W., March 1st, 1904. A large gathering was present. The secretary of the "Buffaloes" and Mr. M. D. Williams, were present. Miss Annie Robinson of 1227 Nineeenth street, Northwest, will leave the city Thursday, March 24 for a visit to her mother in Manassas, Va. She will spend a few days there, resting and regaining her health. Mr. James M. Conway, the special supreme deputy of K. of P. for the District of Columbia has organized a new lodge in the District to be known as Syracuse number 10. It met last Tuesday night. March the 18th, at 1618 L Street, N. W. The Rev. L. G. Jordan, DD., Corresponding Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, is making a supreme effort to raise $5,000 by Sunday, April 3rd. Indications point to his success. He is urging every individual as well ragraphs. as every Church and Sunday School to do the best in raising the quota. The Grand Fountain Is the leading Colored H January, 1881, by William laws of the State of Virg ship is both male and fe to 60 years of age. Its Rev. E. W. Lampton, the Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. Church, is in the city for a few days resting up from a long trip south. Bishop Arnett and a number of members of the financial board of the church are also expected in the city this week. Hons. Hiram Watty, H. S. Cummings, of Baltimore, attended the Washington banquet. Editor T. Thomas Fortune of New York, Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Supervisor of Races of New York city, Judge J. B. Raymond, of Altoona, Pa., and Attorney E. A. Johnson, of Raleigh, N. C., were guests at the Washington banquet. Mr. H. T. Morris, the well-know boniface, has accepted a position at Messrs. Moore & Prioleau, 1216 Penn. Avenue, N. W., as head man and mixologist. Mr. Morris is one of the most popular young men in town and his popularity has already been tested by the large numbers of friends who have called to see and congratulate him. Mr. T. W. R. Griffin remains in charge of the dining-room and is an assistant to Mr. Morris. They make a strong team. Prof. G. F. Richings, who has the most complete stereopticon views showing what the colored people have done in the last forty years, is in the city where he will remain for a few weeks. He gave a most interesting entertainment at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church last Monday night to a large and enthusiastic audience. His work relates almost entirely to pictures of representative colored men and women in all the walks of life, and his explanation is brief to the paint but makes an indelible impression on the auditor. Dr. Brooker T. Washington, arrived in the city last Wednesday night and was met at the station by the committee of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. After a brief reception, he was escorted to the residence of Judge R. H. Terrell on T Street, where he remained during his sojourn in th city. He was in great demand while in the city, but found time enough to see many of his personal friends. The banquet tendered him last Thursday evening was on magnificent scales. Last night he spoke to an aduience at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church that tested the capacity of the church. Of the lecture more will be said next week. Our local contemporary seems to have undergone another metamorphosis. Has Brother Manly gone or is Brother Cromwell playing the 'possum. The mix up between the Odd Fellow's Journal and The Conservator has been fought to a finish. Editor Asbury cleaned up completely for his antagonist of the Windy City and leaves the battle without a scar, and covered with honor and the tropies of victory. ```markdown ``` Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society January, 1881, by William W. Browne, a law of the State of Virginia, with headship is both male and female, and consists to 60 years of age. Its membership of 6 classes. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid to benefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may persons not over 50 years of age paying. The monthly dues are not less than 35 or 50 cents per month in towns and cities, in January and July of each year. Sick week, while death benefits range from $25 in any locality on application to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS—For the proper training on thrift, industry and brotherly love, there is more than fourteen years of age may for each. This department, like the Senior twenty-five cents per week, and death dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES—Persons desiring to leave the than is paid from Fountain Department Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues. Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual Dues Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $2 50 $200 00 $100 00 $4 75 $1 20 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 5 70 1 43 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 65 1 66 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 The Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers Is the leading Colored Fraternal Society of the United States. It was organized January, 1881, by William W. Browne, and chartered in April, 1883, under the laws of the State of Virginia, with headquarters at Richmond, Va. Its membership is both male and female, and consists of all persons of good health from 14 to 60 years of age. Its membership of 60,000 is divided into Fountains and Circles. It pays sick benefits from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, and pays death benefits from $24.56 to $1000. BENEFITS PAID—Total benefits paid to date: Sick dues, $r,500,000; death benefits, $714,378.75. SENIOR FOUNTAINS—A Fountain may be organized consisting of 20 or more persons not over 50 years of age paying a joining fee of from $4.60 to $5.10 each. The monthly dues are not less than 35 cents in rural districts and not less than 50 cents per month in towns and cities, and a semi-annual tax of 40 cents paid in January and July of each year. Sick benefits paid are from $1.50 to $2.50 per week, while death benefits range from $75 to $125. A Fountain may be organized in any locality on application to Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. Master, or to any of his authorized deputies. ROSEBUDS—For the proper training of the young and their development in thrift, industry and brotherly love, there has been formed a Children's Department known as the Rosebuds. Twenty or more children not less than three nor more than fourteen years of age may form a Rosebud, upon the payment of $1 each. This department, like the Senior Fountain, pays sick benefits from $1 to twenty-five cents per week, and death benefits from $24.50 to $37. The monthly dues are fifteen cents per month. CLASSES—Persons desiring to leave their beneficiaries at death a larger amount than is paid from Fountain Department, take out policies in one or more of the Classes of the Mutual Benefit Degree. The members of this degree are divided into Circles, and pay joining fees and dues according to the following tables: Class "B" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual Dues Quarterly Dues Class "E" Joining fee. Value of Certificate after one year. Value of Certificate before one year Annual dues Quarterly Dues Age 14 to 25 $2 50 $200 00 $100 00 $4 75 $1 20 Age 14 to 25 $5 00 $500 00 $250 00 $9 50 $2 54 " 25 to 30 2 75 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 " 25 to 30 5 25 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 44 " 30 to 35 3 00 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 20 " 30 to 35 5 50 500 00 250 00 9 50 2 44 " 35 to 40 3 25 200 00 100 00 4 75 1 43 " 35 to 40 5 75 500 00 250 00 10 40 2 44 " 40 to 45 3 50 140 00 70 00 5 79 1 43 " 40 to 45 6 00 450 00 225 00 10 40 2 44 " 45 to 50 3 75 115 00 58 00 6 65 1 66 " 45 to 50 6 25 400 00 200 00 11 40 2 44 " 50 to 55 4 00 70 00 45 00 6 35 1 66 " 50 to 60 9 50 350 00 175 00 11 40 2 44 " 55 to 60 4 25 65 00 33 00 7 60 1 90 Class "M" Joining tee. Value of Certificate Annual dues Quarterly dues Age 14 to 30 $11 00 $1000 00 $21 90 $5 25 " 30 to 35 12 00 100 00 32 00 5 50 " 35 to 40 12 00 905 00 23 00 5 75 " 40 to 45 13 00 800 00 24 00 6 00 " 45 to 50 13 00 700 00 25 00 6 25 of the Grand Fountain United Order of The bank commenced business April 31 present has steadily increased in volume ital stock of $100,000. From the humble the bank opened for business in 1889. to the volume of business transacted amo cial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank o in the city of Richmond that did not ce while the majority of other banks were This bank had its origin in the brain of bersham, Ga. The banking house is le mond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, Preside REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real real property to the amount of $220,221 of 13 magnificent buildings used as hale farms. It also has under its control in partment is under the management of state and attorney for the association, o REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUS under the laws of the State of Virginia o principal office in the city of Richmond to conduct stores (wholesale and retail control hotels, manufacturing establish association has in operation Hotel Ref. It is a modern up-to-date structure, he also electric cars passing the door. The Mr. A. W. Holmes is manager, and M tion a system of five stores, located as C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened men, runs three delivery wagons, and business. The other stores have been as prosperous. The general manager o headquarters at 608 N. Second Street formed on the plans and recommend President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMEN which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper cusses the leading questions of the day. The copy. The office is equipped with modern print anything from a visiting card to a poste description is made a specialty at lowest pric ager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, V OLD FELKS' HOME—In September, 1893, tion and establishment of Old Folks' Homes in race. Since that time the valuable farm kno six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs thru It. Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Par summer. It is reached in a few minutes from and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As the co-operation of all charitable friends is pray bequests of every character will be very thank of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North S of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, capital stock $100,000. The bank commenced business April 3, 1889, and from that time down to the present has steadily increased in volume of business. It now has a paid up capital stock of $100,000. From the humble sum of $1,268.69, deposited the first day the bank opened for business in 1889 the deposits have grown to $350,858, and the volume of business transacted amounts to $6,190,141.47. During the financial panic of 1893, the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain was the only bank in the city of Richmond that did not cease to pay cash on all checks presented, while the majority of other banks were using script and clearing house checks. This bank had its origin in the brain of William W. Browne, an ex-slave of Habersham, Ga. The banking house is located at 604 North Second Street, Richmond, Va., Rev. W. L. Taylor, President; R. T. Hill, Cashier. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT—The Real Estate Department has charge of all the real property to the amount of $220,221.65, situated in various States, consisting of 13 magnificent buildings used as halls, 8 dwellings, 1 hotel, 5 stores and three farms. It also has under its control 16 large buildings leased by it. This department is under the management of Lawyer J. C. Robertson, chief of real estate and attorney for the association, office at 608 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va. REFORMERS MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION—Was chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia on the 14th day of December, 1899, with principal office in the city of Richmond, Va. The purpose of this association is to conduct stores (wholesale and retail), buy and sell real property, manage and control hotels, manufacturing establishments, and do general business. The association has in operation Hotel Reformer, 900 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. It is a modern up-to-date structure, heated by steam, cold and hot water baths, also electric cars passing the door. This hotel has accommodations for 150 guests. Mr. A. W. Holmes is manager, and Mr. T. W. Taylor is clerk. It has in operation a system of five stores, located as follows: Richmond, Va.; Washington, D. C.; Manchester, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; and Roanoke, Va. The first of these stores, at Richmond, Va., was opened April 3d, 1900. It employs a force of 18 men, runs three delivery wagons, and during the first year did $50,000 worth of business. The other stores have been established since, and have been equally as prosperous. The general manager of the system of stores is Mr. B. L. Jordan, headquarters at 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. This Association was formed on the plans and recommendations made by Rev. W. L. Taylor, its President. THE REFORMER PRINTING DEPARTMENT—Issues a weekly journal, THE REFORMER which has a circulation of 12,000. This paper is published in the interest of the race, and discusses the leading questions of the day. The subscription price is $1 per year, or 5c. per single copy. The office is equipped with modern up-to-date machinery, run by electricity. It can print anything from a visiting card to a poster 42 by 62 inches. Fine job work of every class and description is made a specialty at lowest prices. Mr. E. W. Brown is editor and business manager, office 608 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. Correspondence solicited and agents wanted. OLD FOLKS' HOME—In September, 1898, Rev. William W. Brown recommended the formation and establishment of Old Folks' Homes for the benefit of old and decrepid members of the race. Since that time the valuable farm known as Westham, consisting of 6344 acres, located six miles from Richmond, Va., on the historic "James," has been purchased, at a cost of $14,400. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad runs through the farm, and Westham Station is located on it. Adjoining this farm is Westhampton Park, one of the most pleasant resorts in the South in summer. It is reached in a few minutes from Richmond by the Westhampton Electric Railway and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. As this home is for the benefit of the whole race, the co-operation of all charitable friends is prayerfully solicited. All contributions, donations and bequests of every character will be very thankfully received. Mr. T. W. Taylor is chief in charge of the Old Folks' Home, offices at 608 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. for further information address— Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M 601-6-8 N. Second Rev. W. L. Taylor, G. W. M W. P. Burrell, G. W. S. 604-6-8 N. Second Street, Richmond, Va. REGALIA—The members of the Fountains and Rosebuds of the organization wear no expensive regalia. The regalia of the organization is simple and its cost will be in the easy reach of all, costing from 10 cents to $3. The same is made by the organization in what is known as the Regalia Department. THE SAVINGS BANK—In March, 1888, there was granted by the Legislature of Virginia a charter to the Savings Bank NEW CHEESE DELICACY CALLED LAMOTHE AND MANUFACTURED FROM GOATS' MILK. Entering a first-class fancy grocery store in any of our large cities, one would imagine that Americans enjoyed pretty near everything on earth in the way of things good to eat. Cheese from Switzerland, fruit from Cape Colony, wine from California. In fact, there appears to be hardly a spot on earth that does not contribute some good thing with which to tickle one's appetite. Yet in a letter just received at the State Department, Consul Geo. H. Jackson, of La Rochelle, France, tells of at least one thing which has never been seen in this country, much less eaten. This new delicacy is lam-the cheese, speaking of which he says: "Lamothe cheese is unknown in the United States. It is manufactured from goats' milk in such a manner as to eliminate the disagreeable taste usually found in goats' milk cheese. The body is rich, firm, white, and of very fine grain. This cheese is esteemed very highly by the gourmets. Being dry, it should improve by the voyage of ten or twelve days to the United States." OBITUARY. After an illness lasting several months, Miss Effie Chew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Chew, of No. 811 Delaware Avenue, S. W., died Friday evening, March 18th. The funeral took place from Wesley Zion A. M. E. Church, the following Monday at 2 p. m. She was a most popular young lady as was proven by the large number who viewed the remains and who attended the funeral. TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH Rev. Simon P. Drew, D. D., of Boston, Mass., who has created such a sensation at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, by his revival and evangelical preaching, is having a little trouble with his flock, or rather with his trustees. It seems that a number of the trustees and deacons favor the retention of Rev. Drew, while a very active minority has taken the matter to the court and secured an injunction, prohibiting the Rev. Drew from again entering the church. There is much talk pro and con and it is hoped by the friends of the church that the matter will be settled amicably. PAY UP FIRST Many complaints come to this office from agents and subscribers who are in arrears, complaining that they do not get the paper promptly and regularly. While this is a regretable fact, it is not out of place to state here that the majority of the subscribers and agents are considerably behind in their accounts with The Colored American, and they force the good-pay subscribers and agents to suffer on this account. We cannot make brick without straw. A large number of Gothamites are in the city attending the Bennings' races. THE COLORED AMERICAN. Unites separated, brings back the one you love, helps quickly all in trouble. Removes Evil Influences. Cures Mysterious Diseases. Gives luck and success. Send lock of hair, Date of birth and 12 cents. 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To parties who desire to sell them, they will be sent in quantities of ten or more for $1.00 each. All orders should be addressed to The Colored American WASHINGTON, D.C. This picture should be in every Parlor, Library, Reading Room, School Room, and every Public Hall used by intelligent colored people. THE COLORED AMERICAN. 12 A LITERARY TREAT. Bethel Literary Provides An Interesting Program for Next Tuesday Evening—The Negro and the South. President George H. Jackson is never amiss when it comes to preparing something good for the members and friends of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. Under his jurisdiction, this literary has maintained its well known reputation as a forum for the discussion of all public questions pertaining to the race. The program for next Tuesday evening is one of unusual interest. Hon. Samuel J. HON. SAM'L C. CROSS. C. Cross, a member of the West Virginia Legislature, and author of the well known book, "Is the Negro a Beast?" will discuss the Negro and the South. Mr. Cross is a staunch friend of the Negro, but for some reason he has been very much misunderstood. His coming to Washington will give him an opportunity to define his position and to show just where he stands on the race question. Nature has endowed him with unusual gifts, that of a pleasing and suave presence, a silver tongue, an affability that will make friends and the logic and philosophy that will hold them. Admission is free. The choir of this church has arranged a special musical program, and a number of the leading men of the District have been invited to take part in the discussion. ORANGE BLOSSOMS. Cards are out announcing the coming nuptials of Miss Ida Alexander Gibbs to Mr. William H. Hunt, Consul at Tamatave, Madagascar. The nuptial knot will be tied Tuesday evening, April 12, at seven o'clock, at No. 14 N St. N. W., at the home of the bride. Miss Gibbs is one of our best known school teachers, having taught for many years in the colored High School of this city, and is a daughter of Judge M. W. Gibbs, the first colored judge in the United States, now a heavy taxpayer, and a retired business man in Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Hunt is a graduate of Oberlin College, and was appointed by the late President McKinley to succeed Judge Gibbs as United States Consul at Tamatave Madagascar. He will return to the "land of rubber and eternal summer," taking his bride with him, shortly after the ceremonies. Washington city will at last have a first-class baseball club. Mr. Thomas C. Noyes, who never does things by the halves, is at the head of the club. THE NEW BRUNSWICK. Mrs. Robinson, whose culinary skill is of the highest and who is an excellent manager has taken charge of the dining room of the Hotel Brunswick, at 220 B St. N. W., and solicits the patronage of the public, and gives assurance that everything will be conducted in first-class style, and that there will always be on hand all the delicacies of the season, cooked and served in the same way. Entrance on Pennsylvania Avenue. PROMISING SONG-WRITER DEAD. Mr. William Hamer, oldest son of the late Rev. J. P. Hamer, died very suddenly, after an illness of two days, in the forty-ninth year of his age. He was born in Allegheny, Pa., in 1855, but was raised and educated in this city. He gave all his life to theatricals, as a song-writer and playwright, and at the time of his death was engaged as musical director for the double octette, with Stetson's Co., playing "The Big City Show." He played his part at the last performance on Saturday, February 27th, at Urbana, Ohio, and died on the road, Monday, February 29th, 1904. His wife carried his body to their home in New York City for burial. Mr. Hamer has composed and written the music to many songs, his latest effort being "The King of the Fiji Isles," a musical extravaganza, which he finished shortly before his death, but will not be brought out before next winter. His sisters, Mrs. Mary Hamer Adams and Mrs. Louise Hamer Burrell, and his brother, C. A. Hamer, left Washington, March 3rd, to attend his funeral in New York. Mr. Hamer comes of a musical family, a family noted for its talent in many directions. Miss Lou Hamer Burrell is one of the best known contraltoes of Washington, and one of the soloists in the Colridge Taylor Choral Society, while Mr. Charlie Hamer is a well known expert sign painter. AT BETHEL LITERARY. The musical feature, alone, should be an attraction sufficient to warrant a large and appreciative audience. Besides the well known Temple Male Quartette, directed by Mr. Wm. H. Carter, Jr., Rev. Louis C. Sheafe, D. D., will be present and has consented to sing one number. Tuesday night, April 4, 1904. FRANKLIN Franklin The FRANKLIN STANDARD TYPEWRITER was named in honor of Franklin for its own Common Sense characteristic. SPEAKING OF TYPEWRITERS It isn't Common Sense to write upside down. It isn't Common Sense to write in the dark. It isn't Common Sense to waste time. It isn't Common Sense to pay $100 for a writing machine, one just as good and better for $75. The four essentials of a perfect typewriter; VISIBLE WRITING CITY OF MECHANISM, SPEED and DURABILITY are eminent. BANKLIN. Meation The Colored American. Give the FRANKLIN a trial and be conv. Coal and Wood Delivered Promptly Canal and N street. Call us up we will treat you right. 'White Ash Stove, Shamokin Stove, Red Ash Stove, Lyken Valley Stove, Chestnut, Egg, Furnace, Oak and Pine Wood. Wholesale and Retail Dealers 'Phone Main 1779. Lewis Jefferson & Canal and N, S. THE MADAME BERNICE ELECTRIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER & RE It isn't Common Sense to pay $100 for a writing machine, when you can get one just as good and better for $75. The four essentials of a perfect typewriter; VISIBLE WRITING, SIMPLICITY OF MECHANISM, SPEED and DURABILITY are embodied in the FRANKLIN. Give the FRANKLIN a trial and be convinced. Coal and Wood Delivered Promptly Canal and N streets, S. W. Call us up we will treat you right. 'White Ash Stove, Shamokin Stove, Red Ash Stove, Lyken Valley Stove, Chestnut, Egg, Furnace, Oak and Piné Wood. Wholesale and Retail Dealers 'Phone Main 1779. Lewis Jefferson & Co., Canal and N, S.W. THE MADAME BERNICE ELECTRIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER & RESTORER. Do it your self TAKEN FROM LIFE Before Using TAKEN FROM LIFE After Using WHY PAY OTHERS TO STRAIGHTEN AND DRESS YOUR HAIR, WHILE yourself, at your own home, by the simple use of the Mme. 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A TRIAL IS CONVINCING Do Not Be Mislead into taking inferior or cheaper preparations, as everything else that is good, may cost you a little more money, but we and will do you more good than anything else you can buy, and are cheap. We send the Fair Straightener and Comb together (or separately), receipt of purchase price, $1.50, to any part of the United tates or Canada, and address, City and State, with street number, PLAINLY, and send Order or Express Money Order to The BERNICE DRUG CO., 33 West 42d St. and goods will be sent at once. Do Not Be Mislead into taking inferior or cheaper preparations, as our articles, like everything else that is good, may cost you a little more money, but will last you longer and will do you more good than anything else you can buy, and are cheapest in the end. We send the Fair Straightener and Comb together (or separately), express paid, on receipt of purchase price, $1.50, to any part of the United States or Canada. Write your name and address, City and State, with street number, PLAINLY, and send Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order to The BERNICE DRUG CO., 33 West 42d St., N. Y. City and goods will be sent at once. FINANCIAL ——— ee 0 YOU NERD ixssistancet istance ? If so, come to us. We are always ready to loan you any amount you may need. You can repay it in small monthly payments to sult your conve nience, We make loans on Furniture, Pi- anos, &¢., without removal or any pub- licity in any way. All business is pri- vate. WASHINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY, 610—¥F Street—610. . Some Men Pay $10.000 For an expert to manage their ad- vertising. There are others who pay $5.00 fcr an annual subscription to printer’s ink and learn what all ad- vertisers are thinking about. But even these are not the extremes reach- ed. There are men who lose over $100,000 a year by doing neither one. For sample copy send 10c to Printer’s Ink, No. 10 Spruce Street, New York City. E HAVE A BAR’L of money to lend on furniture pianos, &c. No delay. Goods are not disturbed. You return the money in small payments. If you have a loan and need more mon_ ey, we can fix you up. Business con fidential *Phone, M, 3042. SURETY LOAN COMPAN7. Suite 1, Warder Building. cor. 9m and F, 523 9th. and Upwards 0ans 0 Made on Fur- niture, Pianos, —— Wagons, etc., at lowest rates and in the day you apply. We are loaning on the Building and Loan Asosciation plan, which makes the cost of carrying loans much less than you pay elsewhere, and allows you to pay it off in any size notes you desire, running from one to twelve months. you only pay for the use of the money for the length of time you carry it. If you have a loan with some other company we will pay it off and advance you more money if desired. Rates cheer- fully given and no cost to you unless the loan is made. Loan made anywhere in the District. Call and get rates. Front room, first floor, Scientific American Building. National Mortgage Loan Company, | HERE I§ A CHANCE | To get the money you want. | We have more than we need. { We will make loans to every- | } body without delay. If you | want money see us to-day. | , You will not be disappointed. . Loans made on furniture, pi- ‘ anos, organs, etc., without re- i moval. Loans to salaried em- ; ployees without endorsement. {602 F STREET, - .- Cor. 6th St. | rh Capital Loan Guarantee : Company. | PNP SSIS LESS SE OI SIESTA OS OUTSTRIPS ALL. The Colored American of Washing- ton, D. C., Ed, Cooper, proprietor, still outstrips all of his competitors with 64 columns of original reading matter and good, live advertiseing makes The Colored American the national journal of the colored people of the country. We admire push, energy and good common sense and wish him suecess.— Illinois Idea. 3 THE COLORED AMERICAN. ll llllaaS=@SSSSSSSS_oqs——=—=—'——=TS WANTED! A LADY | STENOGRAPHER! The Sern There is a good position in vesai! tl fer a lady stenographer, one who can’ take dictation, and one who is prac- | tical. Expenses will be paid to the See ar ‘right person, Call or address, “H” The above sermon, “T care of this office, for fuller informa- Agbebi, M. A., Ph. D., of Li tion. ad A NEW COLORED DRUG STORE Is now located at 1300 4th St. N. W., and is conducted by Julius R. Mayer, Ph. D. The store is up-to-date and fully stocked with one of the finest, freshest and purest lines of drugs, and medicines, in the city. Perfumes and toilet articles, ete., the very best at the price. A visit to this new store will repay you, and an inspection of the stock, please you, even if you do not wish to buy. “MAYER’S PHARMACY,” 1300 4th St.. Corner of N N. W. Ly |, de, ee i Mae M\\\\ 1a ane au 1 Cl == RSH } 7 ia “Se S , yy ee We \s Ai ? Nas Me ez ~ PrN) <7 RR a NO es RR SS Hie Ne NON A KS. A! ih y SS SAW PO HON. G. H. JACKSON, United States Consul. (See article on page 11.) MASON COTTAGE. Mrs. Francis Mason-Cottage, 932 Baltic Ave., Atlantic City, N. J., can accommodate lodgers at a reasonable rate. For further information, call or address, 1507 Pierce Place, N. W., Mrs. Francis Mason. FIRST BLOODSHED FOR STOCK- HOLDERS. In the suit brought by Mr. Jas. T. Jones against Dr. John R: Francis and other stockholders of the Capital Sav- ings Bank, the court decided in favor of Dr. Francis and the stockholders. This is recorded as a test case and a victory for the stockholders. The friends of Dr. Francis are particularly pleased because he had sold his stock in the bank many years before it failed, and in fact was not a stockhold- er when the bank went into insolvency. COLORED MAN WANTED! Who is intelligent and reliable, for responsible position in New York office of corporation. As he will handle funds, must be able to give best references, and furnish $500 cash as security, which will be secured. To the right man a liberal salary will be given, with chance for advancement as ability is demonstrated. Don't answer unless you can furnish the security stated. Address— G., 9 Pine St, (Room 517) New York. HOW IT STARTED. “You looked so sheepish when you proposed to me,” said Mrs. Growells along toward the rear end of the honeymoon. “yuh!” retorted Growells. “I sup- pose that is what makes you look so wofish now.” ' ‘ - The Sermon That Startled the World. The above sermon, “The Production of a Genune African,” Dr. Mojoia Agbebi, M. A., Ph. D., of Lagos, West Africa, which has caused considerable excitement, and occasioned much searchings of heart in Africa, Europe and America, can be obtained from “The Enterprise Publishing Co., 258 New Main Stréet, Yonkers, N. Y., at 25 cents percopy. Every Negro should read it. Send at once! Following are some of the many endorsements of this remarkable deliverance. No stamps accepted. Make postal note payable to the order of Enterprise Publishing Co. From Rev. C. T. Walker, D. D., L. L. D., the Great Organizer and Race Leader, New York City. I have read the Sermon. It is really a wonderful sermon. The exegesis is rich and learned and the English chaste and clean. I have learned some things from the book and I believethere are a great many preachers in this land who will learn many thingsfrom it tov. From Rev. W. P. Stevenson, D. D., L. L. D., (white) First Presbyterian Church. Yonkers-on-Hudson. It is g@ unique sermon. From Dr. Booker T. Washington, the Apostle of Industry, Founder of Tuske- gee Institute. ' I thank you for your kindness in sending me the copy of the sermon de- livered by you last December in Africa. I have read it with pleasure and profit. | M (ri & ( irt § i é . ee, 7e —_ eeee = = ey ee, 2- he pS || $5 PER DAY SURE ce + Sh Fal, a) << y SS Agents are making $5 a day selling McGirt’s Magazine Ti A he Ae sseee A great periodical published every in S fy iM month in order that we may have a Se paper that will be read by both races, ae the white as well as the colored that ie pReihtig 8. the white race may know the many ee eee great men and women of the colored Editor-in-Chief and Owner of : aay Ear race and what they are saying and “McGirt's Magazine a joing. Each month it contains articles from the greatest writers of the race. Agents are just as sure of making $5.00 per day selling this Magazine as they are in answering this advertisement. Write at once that you may be the first in the field. Send 50c. for agents’ terms, outfit, and a largé number of magazines, with which you may begin work at once Subscription to every one is One Dellar Per Year. Write— Jo ee DCS ees S. 414E leventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Municipal Buffett 1310 E Street N. W." ‘An up-to-date Cafe and Buffet, a full line of the oldest and best brands of cigras and tobacco. Ladies dining room up stairs. , J. H. Montgomery, Mgr. A. L. SATTERWHITE, Prop. 1310 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 13 Established January, 1897. ~ Telephone, 803 Columbus. © HOTEL MACEO, 213 West 53rd Street, N.- Y- First Class Accomodations ONLY. Handsomely Furnished Rooms for Permanent or Transient Guests Headquarters for Clergy and Business Men. First Class Restaurant. Regu- lar Dinner, including Wine, 35c. 6 Dp. m, to 8. Sundays, 1 to 4.30 p. m., 45¢c. B. F. THOMAS, Proprietor. THE COLORED AMERICAN . Straightens Kinky,Curly Hair | Qz TRADE MARK 16 we — ———~all i S ~ oe NG OF AL HAIR TON! ¥ A <2 4 OZ \ yj aA ' I fee — N&Y \ \YA Y bi fz” 2 WAL << i __ 2 AFTER. oe a ee WARNE D_.-_ z N order to protect the public from the numerous quack nostrums now on the market, which claim to straighten and cause the hair to grow long, and which are ous, put up by a lotof quacks, charlatans, and fakirs, who have no chemical skill, with the sole idea to get your hard-earned cash and give you nothing in return for your money but a anty, sticky mass of worthless greases, which injure the hair and cause it to fall out, we have placed our trade-mark, granted to us by the Government of the United States of America, on every box of OZONO, King of ali Hair-Growers and Hair-Straighteners. This trade-mark con- sists of two heads, as shown in this advertisement—one head showing short, curly hair, the other showing long, flowing hair. Any / preparation showing the heads with the hair done oe a coil, or showing features different from the faces shown ir this advertise- ment, isnot OZONO. Seeing our marked success with the true hair-straightener, OZONO, King of all Hair-Growers, numerous firms are now widely advertising spurious compounds, and trading on the reputation that we have made for ‘OZONO. ‘Do not be fooled by these flaring advertisements, which are all promises. Buy the coum and only original King of all Hair Tonics, OLONO. Two hundred and fifty thousand colored peng bought OZONO in the last twelve months. OZON' O's sold in every State in the Union,.’ all over Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, also in Cuba and the West Indies. Its fame has travelled around the world because it is a true Hair Tonic, that straightens without any outside assistance. Nohotironsare used; ent but OZONO. It not only straightens the hair, but produces a long, silky, beautiful, luxurious growth of soft, fine hair. To neglect your hair is more tnan foolish, when you ean increase its beauty by a few eee oe of OZONO. We can send OZONO to any place that you may live in, no matter where you may live. The price of OZONO [is 50c. a box, sent to any point on receipt of price Four boxes is a complete treatment. In order to introduce this great Hair Tonic, we will send to Par on receipt of UE the following grand aggregation: Four boxes of OZONO; one bottle of ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, which softens rough skin and brightens black skin, making it several shades lighter, worth 50c.; also one bottleof ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, Nature’s cure for all skin diseases, such as Pimples, Tan, Acne, Itch, Eczema, and Boils. »It also removes Wrinkles, and makes the skin soft and pliant. We will also include a one-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, which removes all smells and odors arising from the human bodes such as feet, arm- + pits, &e.; also one bar of our PURITY SCALP SOAP, made expressly for the human scalp. This grand aggregation offer is made@ to introduce honest goods. Cut out this coupon and mail to us, with ee and we will send the goods the same day we receive the money. If you mee $3.00, we will send you four lots; if you send $2.00, we will send you three lots. If you havea friend who wishes to take advantage of this lot, let them pin their name to this coupon, and the goods will be sent promptly. If this offer is read by some one who does not own this newspaper, they can get the goods by mt a $1.00 and mentioning the name of the paper in which they saw our advertisement. Parties who desire one of our MAGNETIC COMBS, which aids rae ee Sa the straightening process, can obtain same by sending 50c. extra. Remember, OZONO is guaranteed to straighten the hair—to a ae es ants Oh ale tees. el en alee eee ae BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Enclosed find $1.00, for which please send me the following goods, as by your Four large boxes of Ozono, worth...............------$2 00 One large bottie of Electrical Skin Refiner........ 50 Qne large bottle of Electrical Skin Food..........- 50 One large pint package Auti-Odor, worth ...-.....- 25 One large package Purity Scalp Soap, worth.....__ 25 Total .........0-.0-0200+++--- BESO Name. House Wo. 2 es Post-Office. Nearest Express Office. County. State. 2 A Pi RPE Le Sete Oe Nate a rs 2S. pce ci eget naman eeteenanectanaterrincesrt a A =. enn: Here is an opportunity for students and persons who luzve spare time to make a little money for themselves. The Colored American is the newsiest and brightest race journal puwlishod,and it is an easy matter for an ener- getic person to secure subscriptions for it, and to secure advertising for it. You only have to show a copy of it to your friends and neighbors and to the business men of your acquaintance and they will readily subscribe for it, or advertise in it. The work is light and pleasant, and as a geod com- mission is offered an energetic person can make a few dollars every day without much effort: Send at once for sample copies and full instructions. Address The Colored American, 459 C street, N. W., Washington, D. % Attention | Youne Men & Youns Women | = we 15 make it grow long, soft, and glossy ; aiso to cure ail itching, burning, humiliating scalp diseases. To make the hair grow out again on bald spots, espe- vend around the temples, there is no Hair Tonic on earth one-half so good. The Boston Chemical Com- pany holds a charter granted by the State of Vir- ginia. We also refer to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va., and to the Southern Express Com- pany. Register your letters; it protects you. Ad- dress your letters plainly to— ~ BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, ‘ 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. 4 16 CITY PARAGRAPHS. The Young Men's Protective League will be assisted by their auxiliary of 200 ladies. The visit of the great Tuskegeean last week in this city is still the talk of the town. Mr. and Mr. C. A. Smith, proprietors of The Woodlawn Terrace, Lawnside, N. J., are happy from the visit of the stork. It is a fine daughter six weeks old. Mother and baby doing well. The Washington Light Infantry Hall is a grand, spacious, and commodious one, and the League is to be congratulated on their being able to secure it for their reception on the 15th. The individual and collective popularity of each and every member of the Protective League insures their testing the capacity of the Armory, at their reception on the 15th inst. The Invincible Orchestra, Prof. Edw. Ambler, leader, will furnish the music at the reception of the League at the Washington Light Infantry Hall on the 15th of April. Cards of admission to the League's reception on the 15th inst., are put at 50 cents, but no boisterous or disorderly person will be allowed to remain in the hall. Mr. Michael M. McCary, clerk to Paymaster Major John R. Lynch, located in Omaha, Neb., is spending a few days in this city, the guest of relatives and friends. The Montgomery School, named after out fell townsman, the late H. P. Montgomery, was dedicated last Monday in a most appropriate and befitting manner. The Second Annual Grand Reception of The Young Men's Protective League, will take place at the Washington Light Infantry Armory, 15th and Penn. Ave., N. W., Friday evening, April 15th. Most of the young men in town are members of the Protective League and all of them are friends of the organization, and as to the ladies, well, they will be very much in evidence on the evening of the reception. The reception of the Protective League will commence at eight o'clock, and will beyond a doubt be one of the finest and most select affairs of its kind that has ever taken place in this city. Miss Susie Hamilton, a graduate of the Business High School, who accepted a position as stenographer with Mr. E. C. Brown, real estate dealer, in Newport News, last summer, has returned to the city. The Arctic Ice Cream Co., 601 N. Y. Ave. N. W., are now serving a large number of families regularly with creams and ices as it has been shown that they are putting up as fine a line of goods as there is in the city. Modern machinery, expert makers and the highest quality of ingredients and flavorings ensures satisfaction to their customers. 1 THE COLORED AMERICAN. Did you get your invitation to the Hesper Innovate at the True Reformer Hall, Easter Monday night? There will be dancing from eight until two, and judging from the talk going on all the fellows and their girls are sure to be on hand. And, by the way, have you seen a neater dance card than theirs or a more novel one. Admission has been placed at 35 cents. Hereafter agents who send in returns or unsold copies must place their names and addresses on the same or they will not get credit. We have nearly one hundred and fifty agents, and as will be seen at a glance it is utterly impossible for us to recognize the handwriting of each. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, of Tuskegee Institute, are now the smiling and happy parents of a bouncing girl baby. Word comes to us from New York of the death last Sunday week, the 20th of March, of Mr. Dave Washington, who was for years one of the best known and most efficient stewards of the Fall River line of steamers plying between New York and Boston. Of late years and up to his death he was the port-steward of the Joy Line Steamship Co., at their wharves at the foot of Catharine St., in New York City. RESTORATION IN BATCH OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH ...AND HAIR TONIC... both in a box for $1.00, or three boxes for $2.00. Guaranteed to do what we say and say in the world." One box is illuminated, and used as an LED light. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four a five shades lighter, and a mulatto person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours, shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots, but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or blackheads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Smallpox pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. CRANE'S!HAIR TONIC that goes in every one' dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 35 cents extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a book free of charge. Packed so that no one will know the contents except receiver! CRANE & CO., 11 W. Jackson St., RICHMOND, VA. EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS.—Opal and Kara diamond rings one and two stones sent prepaid for 25 cents; 50 cents fire opal pin for 25 cents, both sent on receipt of 50 cents. Address: WM. WARD, 157 Waldo St., Providence, R. I. ATTENTION. SUBSCRIBERS! We are sending out a large number of bills each day to delinquent subscribers as well as to subscribers whose subscriptions are just expiring. We are striving to give the race a clean, strong, newsy newspaper and we hope every person who receives a bill or who know themselves to be in arrears will send in their subscriptions at once. tf. Money to Loan! Money to loan at lowest rate of interest on Real and Personal Property, also on Notes. Apply at office of Mutual Improvement Society 407 Seventh street N. W., third floor. H. K. Fulton's Loan Office. Established 1870. watches, diamonds and silverware for sale. Old gold and silver bought. The most reliable place in the city for borrowing money. PHELPS HALL BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL OF THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Tuskegee, Alabama. ESTABLISHMENT.—The Tuskegee Institute, realizing that the demand for an educated ministry is growing throughout the South, opened the Phelps Hall Bible Training School in 1893. To enter the Bible School it is not necessary to have a special call to the ministry. Those who desire to do missionary work only, or to become intelligent Sunday school teachers, as well as those who intend to preach, will be greatly helped by taking the course. OBJECT.—The chief aims of the Bible Training School are to give to young colored men and women a comprehensive knowledge of the entire English Bible, and to implant in their hearts a noble ambition to dedicate their lives to the elevation and Christianization of their people. The students are required to do missionary work in the various churches and Sunday-schools near the institution. In this way they have been very helpful to the neighboring communities. The teaching in the Bible School is wholly undenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work now being done but rather to assist all denominations. THE BUILDING.—Phelps Hall, the building in which the School is taught, was given by a generous New York friend. It is a frame structure, three stories high. On the first floor are the Chapel, Library, Reading Room, Office of the Dean, and three Recitation Rooms. The two upper floors, containing forty rooms, are used for sleeping apartments. TEACHERS AND LECTURES.—Rev. Edgar J. Penney is the Dean. He is assisted by Rev. B. H. Peterson and Rev. J. H. Gadson, Rev. C. O. Boothe, D. D., of Selma University, Selma, Ala.; Rt. Rev. George W. Clinton, of Charlotte, N. C., and Rev. H. T. Johnson, Ph.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., deliver a regular course of lectures during the term. Dr. Frank K. Sanaders, Dean of the Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., delivered a special course of lectures during the current year. EXPENSES.—The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, washing, etc., is $8 per month. Students will be given an opportunity to work out from $2.00 to $3.00 of this amount, thus leaving only $5.00 to $6.00 to be paid in cash. In some cases arrangements may be made so that a few may work out the whole amount. Lack of means need debar none. STUDENTS AND GRADUATES.—There have been twenty-six graduates from the Bible School. Some of these are actively engaged in ministeral work; other, with the ministry in view, are pursuing further studies in other institutions, while still others are teaching. The total enrollment in the Bible School for last year was fifty-three; fifty-two males and one female. Four are ordained ministers, twenty-one licentiates, and the remaining twenty-eight are laymen. 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That name was "Uncle Mark." The Danville Mirror is of the opinion that the utterances of Hon. John S. Wise at Grand Rapids, Mich., recently on the Negro question, incapacitates him for further services as counsel for the race in its determined fight for manhood rights. The Mirror is about right. The race does not share the opinion of a certain Georgia Bishop that it is again to be turned into slavery; and yet there is a world of wisdom in what the good Bishop says when one stops to consider that nearly every civil and political right of the Negro is being taken from him. This kind of sinister legislation is not confined to the Southern States, but has crossed the Mason's and Dixon's line and is operating in Maryland. Just how far the abridgement of the rights of the Negro will go, no one but the Master Himself can tell. The fools are not all dead. For instance, the Rt. Rev. Wm. M. Brown, of the Episcopal Church. The Tuskegee student is the most interesting college paper that comes to our sanctum. It is always replete with good things and deals in the "work" of Tuskegee rather than in the "doings" of the younger students. The Mound Bayou Demonstrator is discussing that all absorbing question, "is the Negro a Hoodoo?" We give it up. A certain class of colored people continue to patronize the peanut gallaries of certain local theatres in this city. They are Jim Crowed in the meanest fashion, and if by accident one of them seures a ticket for the dress circle or parquet, they are refused the seat, put out, their money refunded, or sent to the peanut gallery. Speaking about discrimination in theatres, the Bluff City News published in Memphis. Tenn., has the following to say: "During the Patti engagement here at he New Auditorium, no Negroes were allowed. We indorse this course of the management and think it a blessing in disguise. It is time the Negroes had race pride enough to foster something of their own, but must be forced to do so. Col. Church has spent a large sum of money for the erection of a theatre for the exclusion benefit of the colored citizens, and yet they would rather go where they are not wanted. A hint to the wise is sufficient. Since the scapegoat speech of Tillman, in Wisconsin, a few summers ago, color prejudice has followed in its wake. A colored juror of Des Moines, Ia., has sued a hotel for $1,500, because the management refused to serve his meals along with the other jurors. THE COLORED AMERICAN THINGS WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE. The Jim Crow cars running into Washington abolished. A larger attendance at our churches and Sunday schools. Colored people sustain their race enterprises. More and better support given to our newspapers and job printing offices. Fewer scandals in our schools and more attention given to the work. Department clerks pay their honest debts. More harmony and unity among our people. The Mercantile and Co-operative Association establish a large clothing store in this city. The Jane Moseley Company harmonize and do a land office business on the Potomac this season. Less talk about race manhood and more action. Some intelligent colored man with moral stamina and influence elected as delegate to the next Republican National Convention. Fewer of our people around the police courts and more of them doing business in the banks. A wide berth given to the gossipers and scandal mongers and more attention to right living and truth. Our colored lawyers work themselves up to the degree of efficiency attained by our doctors. Dr. Phillip B. Brooks in his new house. Messrs. Whitfield McKinlay and W. Calvin Chase shake hands across the bloody chasm. The Pen and Pencil Club Officers prove to outside medlers that it still has among its membership men of brains as well as men of character and honor. Howard University maintain the pace it has set. Ten thousand new subscribers to The Colored American. A first-class Summer Resort adjacent to Washington, where colored people can go without being molested or discriminated against. More men and women do something that would meet the approval of the smart alecks around Washington. A muzzle put on some of the irresponsible correspondents who get their news and facts from their imaginations. The Defender, published by one Rev. Astwood, brings out the name of John C. New, of Indiana for Chairman of the National Republican Committee and gives other imperitent advice to the members of the National Committee. Mr. John C. New was Treasurer of the United States years ago, is the father of Mr. Harry S. New, a member of the National Republican Committee and a retirel merchant in Indianapolis, Ind. 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THE LADY OF THE MUSIC MME. SISSIERETTA JONES, (Black Patti). The present organization comes up to the standard of those seen in this city during other seasons. The variety work is placed in the hands of people who are able to entertain by the sheer force of their talent. The chorus was strong in number and voice. The latter part of the performance was featured by selections from grand opera. They were effectively given, and in justice to the organization let it be said the music was the best that has been heard in Columbus since "Red Feather." Perhaps one should make an exception of "The Fortune Teller."—Exchange. A REV. PROPHET HERE. Dr. Andrew Jones, Who Has Made Many Prophecies, Of which Many Have Come to Pass, is in the City. The Rev. Andrew Jones, an ordained minister of the gospel, and who has traveled and preached in many parts of the country, is in the city, doing evangelical work. He will remain in the city for a few weeks and will preach at a number of the leading churches. He preached at the Virginia Avenue Baptist Church last Sunday, and during the week at the Metropolitan Baptist Church on R St., as well as at Shiloh. Dr. Jones is attracting lots of attention to himself because of a number of his prophecies that have come true. For instance, in Kansas City in 1897, he prophecied the great calamity that befell that city. He also predicted the Galveston flood and has copies of newspapers printed before these prophecies came to pass. He was in this city in December, 1898, and prophecied that the late President McKinley would leave the White House under peculiar conditions. His last prophecy was in Jan. 1898, in the city of Baltimore. THE COLORED AMERICAN He prophecied that a great catastrophe would befall that city, and said it would be within the next five years. The recent great holocaust in the city of Baltimore came in on scheduled time, according to Dr. Jones' prophecy. 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Ham Adams', cor. 9th and G Sts. N. W. ```markdown ``` 3 WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER. Attorneys L. Melendez King and Thos. L. Jones Defends Her-Jury Disagrees-Eight for Acquittal, Four for Conviction. The case of the United States against Eva DeVeal, began Monday, March 21, in Justice Pritchard's Court, and continued through to Saturday, 26, at four p. m. The defendant was charged with the murder of her infant child, Oct. 3, 1903. The jury was composed entirely of white men as all the colored men drawn seemed to have been opposed to capital punishment. The case was bitterly contested from start to finish by counsel on both sides. The government was represented by Attor- [Name] MR. L. M. KING. neys Turner and Gordon, and the defendant was represented by Attorneys L. Melendez King and Thos. L. Jones. It is generally conceded that the colored boys put up a hard fight. It was said that Lawyer King made one of the finest speeches ever heard in the courts of this jurisdiction. 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Jackson officiated.—Greensboro News. Bishop R. S. Williams of the C. M. E. Church after spending a successful week in this city, left last Saturday for Richmond, Va., and other points. THE COLORED AMERICAN. District Republicans Thoroughly Organized and Demand an Honest Vote and a Fair Count—Dr. W. S. Richardson and Mr. J. W. Poe to Lead the Ticket, and They are Winners. The political cauldron is boiling in the District, and the henchmen in the twenty-three precincts are on the alert. The democrats have fought their fight to a finish and Col. Jas. L. Norris comes out an easy winner. In the republican ranks there is peace and harmony, and a number of "willo'-the-wisp" candidates are in the field, but the concensus of opinion is that the strongest and most popular ticket will be headed by Dr. W. S. Richardson and Mr. Jas. W. Poe, (colored). This ticket looks like a winner, and from all indications, it will lead the republican forces to victory. 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Do not fail to attend the Easter services in Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Special sermon by the pastor, Rev. O. J. W. Scott, showing the power in Christ's resurrection, and the giving of the message from God to man as only he can give it, will add force and beauty to the communion service which immediately follows the sermon. Infant baptizing Sunday a. m. The palms added to the beauty of the altar, which has looked beautiful each Sunday during the winter season, with its lovely growing plants and cut flowers. One needs only mention that Prof. J. T. Layton will give a song service Easter Sunday evening, to crowd the church. Please remember there is a silver offering at the door. The Woman's Day exercises were well attended, and, as usual, Miss Ella Boston gave a very interesting address. Mrs. Rosetta Lawson, Mrs. Duffield and Miss Chanie Patterson took part in the discussion that followed, and we all felt that the hour had been profitably spent. All interest just now is centered in the approaching annual conference, to be held in this church during April. Any friend wishing to entertain minister, having only lodging and breakfast to furnish, will kindly send their address to the parsonage, 1444 Q St., N. W., immediately. Miss Haslam, sister of Capt. Haslam, is here from England, to serve as a missionary. She is interested in the Homeward Bound Mission which has done considerable rescue work among the unfortunate ones. She addressed the Y. P. S. C. E. Sunday evening. The Sunday School is preparing to give the Cantata, Laila, together with an appropriate May exercise. Fully one hundred and fifty children will take part. THE SILVER TONGUED DANCY Recorder of Deeds John C. Dancy is in constant demand as speaker and orator of all kinds of occasions. 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No seats rented, none reserved; all absolutely free and everybody made welcome. condition as well as a theory? Where in the wide, wide world shall a chap hide himself that he may not see the things living and happening around and about him? I offer these as the sole reasons for calling attention to the species "Inconsequents," as I designate them. "How shall we know them?" comes the query. Quick as a flash comes the retort—wireless telegraphic—across the ethereal wastes of the universe: "By their mighty deeds of race valor and by the splendor—irridescent and enduring—of their race achievement, shall ye know them." As a rule they assume all the burdens of the race with small regard for the responsibilities of the assumption. They are "the foremost opponents," the "self-sacrificing heroines of the race," the "undaunted leaders," the "Joan of Arc of her race," the "greatest since," etc., etc. You can't miss them. They come as the stars in the night—countless, never-dying and of varying magnitude. Race conventions are the meat, much speech the milk and honey of their existence. They are omnipres J. EDITOR T. THOMAS FORTUNE. President of the National Afro-American Council. ent, self-satisfied, foolish. Names? Ye gods I would not be so brave as to give out names. I have too much regard for my being to do anything so short-sighted as that. I, too, am a long-distance martyr who never liked the smell of powder and who never cared the snap of a finger for the sight of blood. Some day, when the morning comes sweet with the fragrance of flowers, when the noontide lies glorious in the light of a summer sun, and when the shadows give the breath of the dying light of evening to the soul of the stars, then shall I go to the top of one high hill and give voice to the courage which will not now look men in the face. Until then, peace to my ashes. The Anacostia Amateur Press Association is an organization I want to be proud of. I am sure I will be. There is a catholicity of spirit manifested in the association's statement of objects and privileges that binds me, heart and hand, to it. But what trouble the projectors of the organization have builded for themselves! The proposals to unite fraternally all amateur journalists, to enable members to place before the public their their literary productions, to instruct members in literary work and to hold spirited debates, are worthy though stupendous objects of high desire. It is one of God's blessings that the ef- THE COLORED AMERICAN forts of the association will be confined to the District of Columbia. Else what could we hope for it but failure, lamentable and absolute? The amateur journalist is a "genus omnipresentium" whose habitation is in every known corner of the globe—and in some corners that are not known. Nobody has ever been able to unite him fraternally. He lives, as a rule, on the excessively high plateaus in the Land of Self-Esteem, and will not eat the food of common men. He is sometimes found, not always, in the editorial chair of the Weekly Effort, a race journal devoted to the best and everlasting interests of the colored race. His distinguishing mark of identification is, however, his positively amateursh methods of performing the functions of journalism. In this particular branch of world-usefulness he is what the gamin of the street would call a "peach." But this is neither here nor there. I started out to give a word of encouragement to the young men of Anacostia who recently organized a press association and I mean to do it. For a moment, temptation came my way, and I wandered off on an excursion to the land of "It-might-have-been-better," with an impure heart in search of false gods. Let me say, without more ado, that the Anacostia Press Association has organized in commendable spirit, and deserves the sincere co-operation of those among us who would have things to come better than things are today. A bumper of the wine of the wine of fellowship to the Anacostia Amateur Press Association, and may it live long and be happy. Speaking of journalism brings to my mind that unique figure in the journalistic life of the race, Tom Fortune. I learned to call him Tom Fortune many years ago, when he and I were won't to take ourselves apart from men and talk of the things which lay nearest to our hearts—books, life, and self-aspirations. And it is with much pleasure that I see him coming to his own in these days of stress and travail. Partly because of the high regard I have always had for the man's courage and disinterestedness; in a wider and larger measure though, because he has labored in all seasons to give character and the strength of well defined purpose to his life's work. He is not the father of Afro-American journalism but he is, nevertheless, its saviour. The Globe gave us the first indication of the possibilities of race journalism. It was in the late seventies, as I remember it now, that the Globe was born. And with it came the "new era," the new blood that has since brought to the race the fresher inspiration to stand on both feet in the effort to find a place in the comprehensive economy of American life. There was a healthy, aggressive egoism in the attitude of the Globe toward men and affairs that was refreshing distinct and almost final in its enunciation. It hit out manywheres and in every direction. It spoke with the cocksureness of a right-minded conscience. There was never a doubt on the point of its self-confidence, never a question of the intent of its purpose. It was self-assertive, positive, sincere. Men stopped for a moment to listen to this new voice and then learned to like the burden of the note it struck. Here was laid the beginnings of those departures from the old by-ways of race growth that now loom before us like the marvelous creations of a frenzied fancy. Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since the days of the old Globe. Time enough to enable us to place some estimate value upon the work of the man who gave it being and brought to us, in its wake, the Freeman and the Age. I have met men I thought possessed more of the judicial temperament, others I imagined better educated; but none who impressed me as being so unrelentingly sincere as Tom Fortune. The value of his life's work lies in the sincerity with which its aims have been pursued. Even when the purposes appeared to waver, when his vision appeared to shorten, men would question the wisdom but they never doubted the sincerity of the man. If a man be sincere and in the main right, he is safe. The possession of this primal element of worth—sincerity—is what gives Tom Fortune a commanding place among the strong men of the race. I wish him a long life and much honor among men. In the city of Chicago lives Elizabeth McDonald. Mrs. McDonald is a probation officer of the Juvenile Court of Cook County, and the only colored person in the entire country engaged in that kind of work. She is a splendid type of the modern colored woman. Several years ago she attracted the attention of the county officials and the judges of the county courts by the character of her volunteer missionary and rescue prison work. When the Juvenile Court was organized Mrs. McDonald was appointed its first probation officer. Today she is the most widely known as well as the oldest officer, in point of service, among the officials of this branch of the Cook county court service. Mrs. McDonald is a progressive woman. No one in Chicago is better acquainted with the history of prison reform work in the western section of the country, or is possessed of a sounder knowledge of the improved methods of treating juvenile criminals. I prophecy for her a national reputation among the prison workers of the country. I have been informed, recently, that she expects to make a tour of inspection of the jails and prisons of the big cities of the country. She will visit Washington. I predict that she will be graciously received in our hospitable city. In any event the people of Washington will have the opportunity to look in the face one of the women of the race who is thoroughly imbued with the modern spirit of doing things. She does things. THE JUDGE. 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Mob attacks, lynchings and the burning of Negroes are too much for him, he said, and continued: "Forty-two years ago I stood ankle deep in blood in the fight between the Merrimac and Monitor, and the blood of my comrades flew upon me as they were slaughtered in the defense of this nation, and yet the nation, although we fought to save the American flag, declares that we are not citizens. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. FOR THE COLORED AMERICAN. All Hail! Strong man of Destiny; From sea to sea is sung your fame. Your wondrous works will always be A glorious tribute to your name. All Hail! Strong man of Destiny; Your deeds are writ in burnished gold: Your mighty words for Industry, Stand firm as Druids did, of old. words for Industry, is Druids did, of old. We will exclaim Done!" and accords us no protection. We can not but help feeling badly over the situation. This is no country for us. 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It will be remembered that a high ecclesiastical prelate,, Bishop Brown, of Arkansas, a few days ago gave utterance to sentiments far more favorable to the idea of lawlessness and lynchings than could reasonably be expected from so distinguished a subscriber to the doctrines of Chris- tian ethics. That all thoughtful men are be coming alarmed at the rapidity with which the firebrands of race hatred and contempt of law are overspread ing the land, may be easily inferred from the following editorials clipped at random from representative jour. nals, religious and secular, located in widely separated sections of the coun try. Note first the powerful indict. ment charged by a leading southern journal, the Vicksburg Herald, called forth by the lynching of a colored man, Holbert, and his wife. Accord ing to an eye witness writing ir that newspaper, they “were tied to trees and while the funeral pyres were be- ing prepared were forced to suffer the most fiendish tortures,” and “to hold out their hands while one finger at a time was chopped off and dis tributed as souvenirs,” while “the most excruciating form of punish- ment consisted in the use of a large corkscrew, which was bored into the arms, legs, and body of the man and women, and then pulled out, the spir- als tearing out large pieces of raw, quivering flesh every time it was withdrawn.” Of this the Herald says: “If there is any hell, and if it is the abode of devils, they must have turn- ed green with envy of the genius of their brethren on earth.” Who is responsible for the state of the public mind ‘which renders such awful tragedies possible? WHere is what the Springfield Republican has to say: “There is responsibility for this fearful affair which approaches very near to men who speak as does Bishop Brown, and it rests heavily on men of the class of Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi.” Similar views are expressed by the Southwestern Christian Advocate, or- gan of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for it says: “We firmly believe that the Varda- man gubernatorial canvas is at the bottom of this heart-sickening affair. He went in to convince his fellow citizens that the Negro is, if any- thing, less than human. Many who heard him turned from the speaker convinced that the Negro is unworthy of consideration and has no rights which they need respect.” THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. The Indianapolis Freeman has come down from its former high plane and is now being run on an amateur journalistic line. Its latest is a “Want-to-know” column, evident- ly conducted by a would-be journalist of the most pronounced Cross-roads type—Afro-American Ledger. : THE COLORED AMERICAN. SIO THE — THE | aera “Colored people as a class are not extensive newspaper readers. They rarely know of anything that is going on except when they are told. It was announced in the daily newspapers not long ago that Civil Service exam- ination would be held for messenger boys and out of the hundreds of .boys that made application, not a single colored boy appeared. Our youths of today have the same opportunity as the white youths to take and to pass these examinations, and it is criminal the way these opportunities are neglected.’—The Colored Ameridan. It can be said that the younger ele- ment are not extensive readers, but go to the home of the masses and you will find them three to one, nearly every white paper published in the community, and one to three, or now and then, will you find a Negro publi- cation; and on finding the latter, an investigation would most likely show that the person to whom it is address- ed is in arrears with his subscription to the amount of several months, more or less, while the white publica- tion in the same home is paid for, if at all, in advance. But Bro. Cooper speaks truthfully when he says “it is criminal the way these opportunities are neglected.” Many a good opportunity has been thrown away simply on accgunt of negligence, and the sooner our young people open their eyes to these facts, the sooner and better will our condi- tions become as a _ people.—Afro- ‘American Citizen, Nashville, Tenn. A RABBIT’S FOOT COMPANY. Mr. Pat Chappelle, the proprietor and manager of “A Rabbit’s Foot Com- pany,” has secured the Empire Theater in this city, to perform during the week beginning Mry ilth, and he will bring to this city an innovation in the way of a colored troupe. This com- pany has its own iwo personal cars, its own big brass band, its own oper- atic singers, its own comedians, and its entertainment is one of that kind of mellowness and music that everyone likes to hear. Full announcement will be made in subsequent issues of The Colored American. : THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP. Examinations for. persons who de- sire to compete for the Rhodes Scholar- arships, at Oxford University, Eng: land, as provided for under the will of the late Cecil Rhodes, will be held in each of the States on April 13th. Persons desirous of getting informa tion regarding the examinations should apply to the President of the Univer sity of their State. 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We cannot begia to sup- ply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agri- culture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted are those in most every case which pay high salaries. hold of men who have received as far as possible, a good education before coming here, and are. ready to enter upon a thorough course of agricultural training. For further information adaress, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Ail Nations welcomeexcept Carrie Nation EDWARD GREEN Fine Wines and Whiskies Cigars and Tobacco Private Entrance fer Ladies S. W. Cor. Cameron and Fayette streets ALEXANDRIA, VA. 8 Agents are wanted everywhere. Send for instructions. Reading notices 50 cents per line. Display advertisements, $2 per square inch, per insertion. Discounts made on large contracts. All letters, communications, and business matters should be addressed to THE COLORED AMERICAN. EDWARD E. COOPER, Manager, 459 C St., Northwest, Washington, D. C. Sold by all News Dealers. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1904. THE WAIL OF THE CROAKER. The man from Tuskegee has been to Washington, and everybody who keeps in touch with contemporary history, knows about his visit. He was invited to the city by the trustee board of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, to deliver an address. His friends in this city, and their name is legion, took advantage of his stay in Washington to give him a banquet, and right royally was he entertained. One hundred and sixty-five men, representing every line of business, every profession, and nearly every shade of opinion, were present to greet him. A number of prominent men came from a distance to do him honor. The visit is a matter of history. The story of the banquet, as well as that of the gathering, where his famous address was delivered, was told in the last issue of The Colored American. We would not refer to it again, but for the fact that a newspaper owned and edited by a swell-headed Negro, has taken occasion to animadvert on the banquet and the meeting. The people of Washington may not be up to the people of Boston in point of education and culture, but they are sufficiently up in good sense to do things decently and in order. There was no redpepper sprinkled in the pulpit of the church, and there were no rowdies and drunken women scattered in various parts of the church to disturb the meeting. The church was packed with Washington's elite, and more than two thousand persons were turned away unable to gain admission. The presence of the police was only required on the outside that those who had tickets could be admitted. No police cases followed and nobody was sent to jail. --- THE COLORED AMERICAN. The Colored American has endeavored to be fair with its Boston contemporary, and while it has crossed lances with it, has never considered the editor seriously. We have often thought that he was luny, but we never thought he was a donkey, but a perusal of the last issue of The Guardian, convinces us that he is both. The entire opinion page of the last issue of that paper is devoted to misrepresentations of Mr. Washington's visit to the nation's capital. There is not a word of truth in anything published in The Guardian about Mr. Washington's visit. The men who gave the banquet and the men who attended it were not all office-holders. There was no political significance to Mr. Washington's visit. He came at the repeated requests of the trustees of the largest Negro Church in America, and the banquet was an incident to his visit. The colored people of this country are having more than their share of trouble, and are met with discrimination at every turn of the road. When a few half educated idiotic Negro editors devote their time and whatever talent they have to abusing a man like Dr. Washington, then it is time for the men of sense to call a halt on the human hyenas. EDITORIAL BREVITIES The colored leaders of Mississippi are up to date. Nearly all of them either own newspapers or have a controlling interest. Among the delegates that will go to the next National Republican Convention is Mr. Samuel P. Hurst, who owns a newspaper plant at Jackson, and Mr. C. A. Buchanan, who owns and edits The Preacher-Safe-Guard, of West Point, Miss. Rev. E. W. Lampton, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, who declined the proffered honor is also interested in many enterprises of a public nature in Mississippi. Dr. C. N. Grandison one of the most gifted pulpit orators in the country, and who was formerly connected with Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C., has accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Buxton Gazette, a white newspaper of Buxton, Ia. There is a general improvement in the matter and make-up of the majority of the exchanges which come to our desk. It is a healthy, hopeful sign and means that the race is being gradually educated up to the point of sustaining its newspapers. The thrifty, enterprising colored people in many parts of the South, are emigrating to the Northwest and to the Southwest, for the purpose of improving their condition, and the white farmers of the deserted states are the real sufferers. The South is the natural home for the Negro, but unless the many forms of discrimination cease against the colored people, the South will, indeed, be a "Deserted Village." Admiral Dewey's explanation of the Haitian incident, does not explain at all. He may have come from Vermont and all that sort of thing, but there is a prejudice which exists in the navy and the army against colored people, to such an extent that no colored youths are admitted either to West Point or Annapolis. The local daily newspapers are holding competitive contests for votes to send school teachers to the World's Fair at St. Louis, Mo. Up to this writing we have not noticed the names of any colored candidates. Where are our 500 school teachers? A sharp contest is going on before the District Committee in Congress, to allow the Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad Co. to build a cross town line from Georgetown to the Eastern limits of the city. The Board of Trade and other organizations of business men have entered sharply into the contest. Since the 90,000 colored people of the District have no interest in this matter except to spend their money, not a single Negro organization has gone before the committee to protest for or against this new company. The District Negro with his great wealth and large numbers seems to be asleep. It is becoming a common custom nowa-days for young colored men to win distinction in the several professions open to them. The colored physicians have already set the pace and now the colored lawyers are breaking records. The latest legal victory was won by Mr. G. Edward Dickerson, of Philadelphia, Pa., recently. The opposing lawyers were white and of high standing. But in the damage suit in question, Mr. Dickerson secured a verdict of $3,000 for his client, a widow whose husband had been killed while employed as a stone cutter. The Philadelphia Tribune is exhibiting considerable enterprise by devoting a page or more each week in showing what the colored men of business are doing in Philadelphia. Editor Perry himself is a successful business man, and is competent to speak. What is the matter with Editor H. T. Johnson, and Business Manager J. S. Collett, of the Christian Recorder? Rev. T. S. Tice has a pharmacopea which he will put into operation at the quadrennial conference which meets in Chicago next May. The Boston Colored Citizen is not at all modest when it comes to pushing its editor and business manager to the front. And that reminds us that The Citizen is the best race journal being issued from the Hub City. Rev. W. D. Chappelle, secretary of the Sunday School department of the A. M. E. Church, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., is developing his department in every way, and ere long it will become one of the strongest departments of the church. Dr. Chappelle is young, aggressive, clean cut and enterprising, and has the gift of turning what he touches into gold. Howard University comes in for a good share of space and praise in the Kentucky Standard, of a recent date, from the pen of Lawyer A. S. White. Mr. White is an alumnus of Howard University, and is one of the many young men who have gone out into new fields and won success. He pays a deserving compliment to Dr. Gordon, the new president of Howard University, and predicts a great future for this already great institution of learning. For venality and maliciousness, the Washington correspondent to the Boston Guardian is entitled to the pastry. Dr. John P. Turner, of the Pension Office, will leave for Pine Bluff, Ark., one day this week ,on official business. He will be gone ten or twelve days. A NEW BUSINESS ENTERPRISE It must be said, to the credit of the colored people of Washington, that they are gradually awakening to the new conditions and to the new business opportunities that are theirs, to be had for the asking. The colored population of Washington numbers nearly 100,000, and the amount of money they spend each day, each week, each month and each year is enormous. The color line is drawn everywhere, and to the credit of the race, it must be said that it is realizing the mistakes it has made in the past, by not giving more attention to the business end of the race question. The newest candidate for public favor is the Co-operative Mercantile & Investment Co. It starts out with a capital stock of $20,000; with shares at $5.00 each. It has come to fill a long-felt want, and it is officered by men who are not novices in the business world. It was organized some five or six weeks ago and in that time more than 250 colored men have subscribed for shares of stock. It is duly incorporated and its purposes are to promote a healthy and honest business competition between members of the race. Its officers are not strangers in the business world. Mr. Frank Gaines, the president, is a successful business man, and is the owner of considerable real estate in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and is also a member of the firm of Gaskins & Gaines, in which he has demonstrated his ability to conduct a successful business whose annual profits run up into the thousands each year. The financial secretary is Mr. Jas. B. Wright, assistant superintendent of Harmony Cemetery, and the treasurer, Major Charles R. Douglass, one of the largest colored taxpayers in the District, and a son of the great Frederick Douglass, hardly need an introduction to the readers of The Colored American. On the board of trustees are such well known citizens as Mr. Richard Watts, the coal merchant, Mr. A. J. Gaskins, Mr. A. D. Watson, president of the Hotel Mens' Association; Mr. John F. Bowie, the well known young business man; Col. J. C. Johnson, secretary of the Seminole Indians, of the Indian Territory; Mr. Wm. F. Branham, Mr. Walter Savoy, Mr. David A. Jenkins and Mr. Jeremiah Matthews all well known in this community. The Colored American is a stockholder and invites the public to invest more freely in the stock of the company. Dr. Horace Talbert, financial secretary of the Wilberforce College, Wilberforce, Ohio, is doing some effective work in this city in behalf of his school. He appeared before the Committee on Military Affairs last week, with what it is hoped, good effect. Major John R. Lynch, Paymaster U. S. A., is in the city. STEAMER JANE MOSLEY. The stockholders of the Freedman Transportation, Land & Improvement Company, met atrtheir office, 609 F St. N. W., on Monday, evening, March 28, for the purpose of perfecting arrange- ments for their summer excursion work. Mr. Joseph Morrison, president of the company, presided, James L. Neil acting as secretary. The meeting was largely attended and the members expressed great interest in the affairs of the company. $1,600 was subscrib- ed by the stockholders present, to be paid in at once to meet the indebted- ness on the boat. A committee was appointed to look after the financial and general interest of the company. Repairs on the boat will begin at an early date, which will consist of a general overhauling. The books will be open to receive charters soon there- after. THE WASHINGTON DINNER. Prof. William Jennifer, is writing an epitome of the “Booker T. Wash- ington Banquet and Leeture,” includ- ing the post-prandial oratory of the distinguished guests, and newspaper accounts of the unprecedented honors shown Dr. Washington in this city, March 17th and 18th, 1904. The initial page of the work is “a thing of beauty” and does great credit to the author. Judging from the prospectus, it will be one of the most unique as well as one of the most “up-to-daite” little volumes ever placed before the public. Mr. Jennifer has had the book copy- righted and is preparing a souvenir number for the St. Louis Exposition. — Recorder John C. Dancy was initia- ted into the mysteries of Masonry last Saturday night, at thc Masonic Temple on Virginia Ave., S. E. He becomes a member of the Eureka Lodge. The Metropolitan Baptist Church and the Mount Horeb Baptist Church are storm centers of trouble and are airing their affairs in the courts and through the daily newspapers. The gentlemen of the cloth do not seem to be setting an example for the sin- ners. ‘ pa MASONS CHARITY FAIR. The Masons of the District are ar- ranging for a grand Charity Fair, and Ball, at Convention Hall, in November of this year. The committee is com- posed of 450 active Masons, represent- ing the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, The Royal Arch Chapter, Grand Com- mander K. of T., The Scottish Rite, The Shriners and the Ladies of the Eastern Star and Courts. Dr. John P. Turner will have the active man- agement of the affair. ee DR. WILLIAMS HONORED. Twice within one year Dr. Daniel H. Williams has been the special guest of the medical profession of Wisconsin. The doctor’s first visit was on the in- Vitation of the State Medical Society, which held its annual meeting at Janesville, Wis., in the fall of 1903. This time the Medical Society of Mil- waukee, which held its annual meet- ing on March 22, extended Dr. Wil- liams an invitation to read a paper on “Penetrating Wounds of the Chest.” Through the daily papers of that city THE COLORED AMERICAN. ARR CAENINEE BARE, IVEUSE DAIL “ Pe-ru-na is a Blessing to Those Troubled With ee Catarrh,” Says United States Senator Corbin, { Ge) j \\ 4 <a ee z =< Alli SMe SS = QS @ 2 FSS £ G7 _ \\ _ = \ \ ee ee SZ ’ Wo NS Zz SV SA ? =f > Sy fe WE Za Sw; ; VEY ZFS eS ‘ Ui pee SN . {LDN Fas Ui @\s PANN EER) {} ee (/ & EER) Ki AU \y (SRO QS EEE SGC CER aD! SMW) SS EN ) eee @ (\ We “Uy Sh ES SNC NG & (NSW 7 NY NA SNe a VN SSL = = WY — SGISIWTN] 3 a, SE = — SSA , Sonn! SO iy) fy is ~~ ——— ee a> —— EX.U.S.Senaior cf << ey ° | ge D.Y-Corbin. i? Em re BS 2 a ES 3 By 731@ Gentlemen--«The use of Pe- fs pj @ runa has been a blessing to ; he “San those troubled with catarrh. BES os SSS BD so many of my acquaintances Cj ok > Sy \O5) have been cured and benefited Si Wit tay by its use that its curative dy ED) ype a qualities should be generally A \ known. Ido not hesitate to UY /h recommend it as the best rem- PX edy yet discovered for that dis- | ease.”’=--D. Y. Corbin, 916 Chi- Colds Not Promptly Cured Are Sure | cago Opera House, Chicago, III. to Cause Catarrh. SS excretion. It pervades every part of Catarrh Improperly Treated is net = ne meee ae Be runa also cures bronchitis, coughs, to Make Life Short and Miserable, sia cceaneanial in the first stages with unfailing certainty. Many Wonderful Cures Are Made} jron. p. y. Corbin, is ex-United States i by Pe-ru-na. Senator and cousin of Adjutant General es —_ Corbin of the United States Army. ATARRII spares no organ or fune- | Judge Corbin is one of the best known © tion of the body. It is eapable of | lawyers in Chicago and stands high pro- lestroving sight, taste, smell, hearing,|fessionally and socially. The above ligestion, secretion, assimilation andj endorsement coming from such a man we learn that the doctor treated his subject in a masterly, scientific way. . | The colored citizens of Chicago are deservedly proud of Dr. Williams’ high standing in his profession throughout the country. While in Milwaukee the doctor was the guest of Dr. F. E. Wal- bridge, president. of the Wisconsin Medical Society.—Ezchange. DIED. DIED. Duptey—At the home of her father, Prof. J. B, Dudley, at Greensboro, N. C., Thursday, March 24th, Inez Dud- ley, aged 16 years, 6 months and 18 RECORDER DANCY’S TRIBUTE. When Recorder Dancy was told of the death of President Dudley’s daughter, he said: “I am shocked by the information. I knew little Inez so well. She was almost the idol of her mother and father.—both very close and dear friends of mine. She was a promising girl, ambitious, bright and charming, and was the hope and life of the whole family. I sympathize deeply with the family in their sore affliction.” A BRILLIANT YOUNG WOMAN. Mrs. Julia P. Hughes Coleman, Phar. 9 WT BSA Ee BA Evie cannot help but add weight and import ance to the thousands of testimonials from the humbler walks of life. Catarrh is the cause of at least one- half of the ills to which the human family is subject. Is there no way toe escape from it?’ There is. - Peruna never fails tocure acold. Pe- runa never fails to cure catarrh in the first stage. Peruna cures catarrh in the second stage, nine cases out of ten. Pe- runa cures catarrh in its last and worst stages in the majority of cases, and never fails to benefit every case, how- ever bad. oe A book on the cure of throat and lung diseases, and catarrh in all stages and varieties, sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O, “My Life Hung by a Mere Thread, 1 Pe-ru-na Cured Me.” Mrs. Sarah Smart, 276 Hayward St., Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: “T can’t tellin words how low I was. My life hung by a mcre thread. I was waiting for months to die. “My trouble was consumption or bronchitis. I suffered no pain when I was low, but coughing and breathing kept sapping what little strength I had. I could not eat, sleep or even lean back on a chair. I was a mere skeleton. I said to my husband, ‘I can’t last much longer.’ My neighbors say they do not know how I ever recovered. It was al- most a miracle. . “TI took your medicine but three months, when I could do my housework and washing, and have been doing it ever [since. Now I am able to do any- thing. You would never think I had been troubled with such a serious ill- ness. I shall always keep your medicine in my house.”—Mrs. Sarah Smart. a Despaired of Recovery. Mrs. R. L. Aulich, Vice President American Genealogical Association, 604 H street, N. W., Washington, D. C., writes: “I know whereof I speak when I say that Peruna is a wonderful remedy for colds and catarrhal trouble. Last fall I was very much debilitated from the effect of a cold contracted early in the summer and which I neglected. Iknew that my system was in need of medicine and rest, but to find the right thing was the problem. Happily I gave Peruna a trial first and have no reason to com- plain of the resultg. Within a month I had entirely recovered my strength and good health and really felt better and stronger than before.”—Mrs,*R. I. Aulich. If you do not derive prompt and satis« factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratis. a Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbns, 0. — ———— D., graduate of the Howard University, class 97, successfully passed the Vir- ginia Pharmaceutical State Board, March 22. Mrs. Coleman has for the last six months been in charge of a drug store at Norfolk, Va., and former- ly ran a store in Philadelphia. She is favorably known here and for a time served aS a “relief clerk” in a colored drug store’ of this city. GRAND OPENING. A grand opening is announced to take place at Satterwhite’s on Monday evening, April 4. Mr. Satterwhite is located at 1310 Penn. Ave., N. W., and he is up to date. The public is invited,